Date   : Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:33:45 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: re:- Jonathan G. Harston's 8 bit IDE HD units

In article <+Ep8FhiNdaQDFwwP@...>,
   Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:
> In article <001e01c5c7ec$f9229690$0100000a@...>, Raf
> <rafg1@...> writes

> >I have been putting two of these through their paces
> >for the past few weeks and my preliminary impressions
> >of them are that they are very good indeed.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I'm waiting for JGH to send me a 16-bit PCB and
> to let me know whether he wants some discs, but he's gone quiet lately.

Yes it's a bit of a shame that a year on the unbuffered 8 bit interfaces are
still being shipped, especially as (having loaned Jonathan my fully
assembled 16 bit interface) it's known to work just fine except for HDInit.

As a work around you can infact use the 16 bit interface provided the drive
is first initialised with an 8 bit card. It's still a bit of a mystery to me
why HDInit only works on the 8 bit card.

I suspect Jonathan is very busy at Sheffield council, which digests an awful
lot of his time,
Sprow.